President Trump on Monday set a 10 percent tariff on lumber imports and a 25 percent tariff on furniture, including vanities and kitchen cabinets. Trump ordered an evaluation of lumber imports in March, describing the good as part of a “critical” manufacturing industry “essential” to national security, economic strength and the industrial resilience of the...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Monday requiring artificial intelligence (AI) companies to disclose safety information about large-scale frontier models in a key win for the push to regulate AI in Silicon Valley’s home state. S.B. 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act, will require developers of these leading-edge AI models to publish frameworks...
Former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Monday he tried to get the Biden administration to issue a preemptive pardon to President Trump during the investigation into Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. “I called a member of the White House, one of the senior advisers to President Biden. And...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday labeled Vice President Vance a “dips---” due to a claim the vice president made about health care spending for migrants. In a clip posted by the White House’s rapid response on the social platform X account Monday, Vance said Democrats had put forward “a $1.5 trillion spending package,...
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey is on lockdown, according to a Tuesday social media post. “ALL PERSONNEL ARE TO LOCKDOWN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. ALL PERSONNEL OUTDOORS SHOULD TAKE COVER,” a Facebook post from the Air Force base reads. The cause of the lockdown is currently unknown. The base is located in Burlington County. This is...
Journalist and historian Garrett M. Graff, writing in the New York Times, calls the indictment of James Comey “about the most corrupt attack on the rule of law imaginable.” Plainly, President Trump does not like Jim Comey. Celebrating his indictment, he trashed Comey on social media, calling the former FBI director "one of the worst...
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth head to Quantico, Va., this morning to address military leaders from posts around the globe at an unprecedented gathering. Hegseth, who has routinely emphasized prioritizing a “warrior ethos” within the Pentagon, last week abruptly ordered generals and admirals to attend the event, which quickly raised questions about what...
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will speak to military generals and admirals in Quantico, Va., on Tuesday morning. Hegseth called for the rare last-minute gathering of military leaders earlier this month, which has raised some alarms. It is very rare for such a large meeting of top officers in person in one location...
U.S. airlines are warning Congress that if the government shuts down at midnight Wednesday, flights could be delayed because air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration employees would be required to work without pay. Airlines for America, a trade group that represents major carriers such as American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United...
Hamas officials said Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group will take time to study President Trump's proposal to end the war in Gaza and consult allies before issuing a response, The Associated Press reported. The 20-point plan, outlined by the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, garnered early support from many Arab...
Conservatives are not at the center of the government shutdown that looks set to begin at midnight. But they are poised to make it more difficult to end if it begins. Democrats are demanding that Republicans address health care priorities as they reject the GOP-crafted, “clean” seven-week stopgap. In particular, they want to extend the...
Young men with college degrees are struggling to find work, while women with the same qualifications are thriving, leading to a potential crisis in the job market and society as a whole.
